Martha Cummings is a mother, at heart and practiceand also by occupation.The fair-haired, rosy-cheeked grandmother of 10soon to be 11has spent the last 17 years nurturing her venerable downtown Spokane specialty store through its ups and a

LineSoft Corp., a Spokane-based maker of software for power-line planning and design, plans to hire more than 200 workers in the next 18 months, accelerating an already aggressive growth clip that has exceeded company projections, says Linda of and

New York investment bankers are telling Avista Corp. that a fund-raising to launch business options at its fast-growing subsidiaries would bring in $200 million less if Avista keeps the subsidiaries headquarters here instead of moving them out of

Liberty Lake-based Telect Inc., the telecommunications-equipment manufacturer thats seemingly always in a growth spurt, has opened a plant in Brazil, is spending millions to expand at its campus here, and is hiring hundreds of workers to handle a

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has awarded a $10.2 million contract to Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, to build a second KC-135 hydrant-based aircraft-fueling system at Fairchild Air Force Base and to expand the bases current fueling began

Spokane City Councilman Steve Eugster says hed like to see the city work out some type of agreement with Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. that would help kick-start development activity at the Spokane companys big Summit site west of the

Pawn 1 Inc., the Spokane-based pawn shop chain that has more than doubled in size over the last five years, says it soon will seek to raise $1 million from private investors to use for general working capital and further business expansion. That is

Advanced Reproduction Technologies Inc., a Spokane biotech research company that has been trying for six years to commercialize its fertility-treatment technologies and spin-off discoveries, appears to have taken a significant step toward its in by

Amica Mutual Insurance Co., a Lincoln, R.I.-based insurer with offices nationwide, has gained a foothold in the Spokane market by buying the Thomas S. Porter Inc. insurance agency, which has represented Safeco insurance here for five years and is a

The company that owns Dishman Dodge here plans to build an estimated $2 million new showroom and sales facility at the southeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Park Road, and to remodel and expand its current new-car sales area for other Hollenback,